Socrates

From Ancient Greek Σωκράτης (Sōkrátēs).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsɒkɹətiːz/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsɑkɹətiz/
• Hyphenation: Soc‧ra‧tes

Socrates

1. A Classical Greek philosopher.
2. A male given name of mostly historical use.

• Socratic
• Socratic method
• Socratic irony

• Archimedes
• Aristotle
• Plato
• Pythagoras

• actoress, coarsest, coasters

Socrates m

1. Socrates

Socrates m (genitive Socratis or Socrates or Socrates')

1. (dated, now uncommon) Alternative form of Sokrates; Socrates

Younger declension:

• Nom. Socrates
• Gen. Socrates (with article), Socrates' (without article)
• Dat. Socrates
• Acc. Socrates

Older declension:

• Nom. Socrates
• Gen. Socratis (rarely Socrati)
• Dat. Socrati
• Acc. Socratem, Socraten
• Voc. Socrates
• Abl. Socrate

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Σωκρᾰ́της (Sōkrátēs).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsoː.kra.teːs/

Sōcratēs m (genitive Sōcratis or Sōcratī); third declension

1. Socrates
   • 5th century, Paulinus Pellaeus, Eucharisticon Deo sub ephemeridis meae textu (ΕΥΧΑΡΙϹΤΗΤΙΚΌϹ Deo sub Ephemeridis meae Textu). In: Ausonius with an English translation by Hugh G. Evelyn White. Vol. II. With the Eucharisticus of Paulinus Pellaeus, 1921, p. 312f.

     Nec sero exacto primi mox tempore lustri
     dogmata Socratus et bellica plasmata Homeri
     erroresque legens cognoscere cogor Ulixis.

     Full early, when the days of my first lustrum were well-nigh spent, I was made to con and learn the doctrines of Socrates, Homer's warlike fantasies, and Ulysses' wanderings.

Third declension.

• There are also rare genitives Sōcratūs (Late Latin) and Sōcrateos (New Latin).

• Sōcrătes in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Socrates in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Sōcrătēs in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 1,452/1
• “Sōcratēs” on page 1,780/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

• Socrates on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la